Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence

Description

Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.The book also discusses how the gestures and techniques of past struggles, as well as 'dilemmas' of working in politically suppressive regimes, can help to inform those of today. This collection of essays from expert scholars demonstrates the multiple responses to this subject, the potential and dangers of dissidence, and thus constructs a robust lexicon of concepts that will point to possible ways forward for politically and theoretically committed architects and practitioners.

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About Author

Ines Weizman is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and a Junior Professor of Architectural Theory at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Contents

Illustration Credits List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence Ines Weizman Part 1: Dissidence through Architecture 1. The Turning Point in 1978. Architects of the Tallinn School and their Late Socialist Public Andres Kurg 2. Bogdan Bogdanovic: Dissident in Life, Architecture and Writing Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti 3. A Difficult Person for Socialism: Elemer Zalotay and his Strip Building Mariann Simon and Peter Haba Part 2: Pedagogy as Site of Dissent 4. Playing in the Time of Normalisation: SIAL Skolka's Experiment and Architectural Dissidence Ana Miljacki 5. Vilanova Artigas and the Sao Paulo School of Architecture Ana Maria Leon 6.Radical Remoteness-The HfG Ulm as Institution of Dissidence Anna-Maria Meister Interview Practicing in Palestine. Architecture between the Lines. Senan Abdelquader Part 3: Possible Geographies of Architecture. Between Dissidence and Activism 7. Antigone's Dissident Dustings: Coatings, Revolutions and the Circularity of Dust Teresa Stoppani 8. Gestures of Refusal in the Margins of New Babylon Jeremie Michael McGowan 9. Translocal Transmedia Citizenship Jonathan Massey and Brett Snyder 10. Mapping the Sea: Thalassopolitics and Disobedient Spatial Practices Lorenzo Pezzani Part 4: Dissident Ecologies 11. Weather Dissidents: From Natura Naturans, to 'Space' and Back Again Helen Mallinson 12. Dissident Water: The Political Life of Rising Acid Mine Water Lindsay Bremner 13. Earthly Poison: Arsenic in the Bengal Delta Nabil Ahmed 14. The Third Degree: Interrogating the Scale of Climate Conflict Adrian Lahoud Bibliography Index